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Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:43:53 UTC No. 16375626
Saw some podcast where someone claimed that because of the idea of fallibility in science, you can never put your faith in scientific reasoning because there is always a chance the theory is wrong.
Is this true to you, or is this a huge stretch of mental gymnastics?
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:20:39 UTC No. 16375679
There is always a margin of error (Murphy), but the real problem are trash sellouts like fauci (Machiavelli), all those fuckers should be impaled alive.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:23:11 UTC No. 16375682
Even if there are flaws in science what other alternative is there for understanding the world lmao.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:40:17 UTC No. 16375707
Most of contemporary "science" is actually pseudoscience completely based on faith.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:44:55 UTC No. 16375710
>>16375626
Reject science. Embrace engineering.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:56:30 UTC No. 16375716
>>16375626
Changing your beliefs when presented with sufficiently compelling new evidence is what science IS. If you can't handle doing that you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:24:07 UTC No. 16376074
what a retarded thread
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:08:00 UTC No. 16376518
>>16375626
Being right in science is awesome.
Being wrong in science is equally awesome.
I’m working on a research project now where we thought the effect we were observing was one thing, but then we found evidence that contradicts it - which means it’s potentially something completely new and undiscovered.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:07:56 UTC No. 16378146
>>16376518
>Being right in science is awesome.
No, its impossible, you can't be "right" in science, you can only be less degrees of wrong than the alternatives.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:15:46 UTC No. 16378152
I thought about posting in this thread but im tired of arguing with 9 years old that just discovered the concept of science. While i posted now, i wont bump the thread
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:35:58 UTC No. 16378166
>>16375626
>there is always a chance the theory is wrong.
You would have to be fucking retarded to deny its true.
The basic problem is science is filled with fucking retards who think long established "laws of science" means they are absolute and immutable. They are dogmatic, just like the most stupid religious fanatics. They give science a bad name. Plenty of them here on /sci/. Such people should be castrated with blunt butter knives before they can breed. For the good of Humanity.
However this
>you can never put your faith in scientific reasoning
is just as fucking retarded.
Science gives us the best answer we have to date. Its that fucking simple.
Jesus Christ where do you retards come from? Are there factories out there mass producing retards? Is this some diabolical plan to swamp Humanity with countless retards so the world collapses? Must be.
Honestly they should nuke the retard factories and then we can get on with colonizing the stars and genociding any aliens we encounter.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:50:09 UTC No. 16378179
>>16375626
One should never have faith in science. It's contradictory.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:06:58 UTC No. 16378192
>>16375626
This is literally what science is. The scientific method is a fancy way to assume that you're wrong, in an attempt to minimize your odds of being absolutely sure about something that turns out to be bullshit.
>>16375682
>>16378166
Science is a method of using existing forms of figuring out how the world works- observation, logic, intuition, and so on. Without science, these methods gave us the entirety of human knowledge up to a few hundred years ago, but were also prone to weird nonsense on account of ego, momentum, goofy assumptions, and so on. Afterwards, using them within science gave us a lot of knowledge it'd presumably have been harder to acquire without it, but were also prone to weird nonsense on account of ego, momentum, goofy assumptions, and so on.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:28:37 UTC No. 16378203
>>16375626
It is true. Without doubt and questioning, we would never have moved beyond Aristotelean teaching.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:02:33 UTC No. 16378416
>>16375626
just study epistemology.
also no matter what dont fall for the subjectivist fags, reality is real and objective truth exists.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:06:24 UTC No. 16378552
>>16378192
What the fuck has that got to do with what I said, you drivel spouting fucking idiot.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:26:18 UTC No. 16379109
>>16375626
>there is always a chance the theory is wrong.
we use science over religion because science has predictive power. 1+1=2 is a "theory," yet we've used to put rockets in space and make thermonuclear weapons. Gravity is a "theory," but if I drop an object, I will bet you anything that it will fall. "But no theory is 100% correct" is a load of cope from religious retards. Shit like transgenders is pseudoscience, and any scientist from the 20th century and prior will rightfully call it so. However, religion is also equally bullshit since it has no predictive power. Prayer doesnt put a rocket into space. Physics and chemistry does.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:36:08 UTC No. 16379377
>>16378416
>can't prove any of it
>empirical methods don't even make truth statements